CHIBAISH, Iraq — A water buffalo, her stomach bloated and haunches sunken, lies dying on a dry expanse of cracked earth. Her calf nuzzles her but she doesn't respond. A few yards away, another water ...
A slain soldier's diary gives insight into his life in Iraq. Nov. 27, 2008 — -- All Doris Santos had of her son, Cpl. Jonathan Santos, was the last letter he sent home before he died in October ...
One year ago, Spc. Derian Anderson, a 27-year-old transplanted West Virginian studying culinary arts in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, headed to Iraq with nearly 4,000 members of the state ...
NPR reporters Philip Reeves has finished one more tour in Iraq. His latest reporting trip took him to Baghdad at a time when residents are absorbing a sharp increase in car bombings. PHILIP REEVES ...
Army Pfc. Marlin Rockhold, a cheerful, soft-spoken 23-year-old, knew he was going to war. Four months before he deployed to Kuwait in January 2003, he had the foresight to sign up for nearly $300,000 ...
This 2024 documentary collaboration between WBIR-TV and KGW-TV revisits citizen soldiers we first met two decades ago in training and subsequently embedded with during their deployment to the war in ...
While Oklahomans are getting spoiled with the first hints of fall weather, an Edmond soldier in Iraq also is looking forward to cooler conditions. “It’s starting to cool off to the lower 100s,” said ...
A Kurdish militant picks his way along a switchback road in Iraq's mountains before pulling over to alert his comrades in a nearby hidden bunker that they are about to have company. After calling from ...
YEREVAN, Armenia, October 30 (UNHCR) - Mariam Sargis has spent most of her life in Iraq, but the teenager is now getting an unexpected chance to discover the land and language of her ancestors. And ...
Biden falsely stated that his son Beau Biden died in Iraq, even though Beau actually died from brain cancer in 2015, six years after he returned from his military service. Biden himself has been open ...
Just days before the American invasion of Iraq, Nahdi Mahdi, one of Iraq’s most famous comedians, was starring in a play called The Wanderers at the National Theatre in Baghdad to a packed house of ...